Text Helper

Text Helper is a PHP Library, that helps with text/string manipulation.

Installation

To install, run this command inside your project directory in your terminal:

    composer require fwrw/text-helper

Usage/Examples

To remove excessive whitespaces:

  TextHelper::normalizeSpaces($text);

It will return the $text variable without them.

To cut a text:

  TextHelper::cut($text, $limit);

It will cut the variable $text in the limit passed by param $limit. you can also put a final string at the end:

  TextHelper::cut($text, $limit, $end);

In that case, the text will be cuted, and have a string (passed by param) at the end, example:

input
  TextHelper::cut($text, 20, "...");

out
  Lorem ipsum dolor am...

In order to avoid a word from separating in the middle, rather cut from the last whitespace by passing 'true' after the $end variable, by param:

input
  TextHelper::cut($text, 20, "...", true);

out
  Lorem ipsum dolor...

To remove accents:

  TextHelper::stripAccents($text);

will return the $text variable cleaned, without any accent. Example:

input
  TextHelper::stripAccents("O dia está lindo");

out
  O dia esta lindo

To remove special characters:

  TextHelper::clear($text);

will return the variable $text withour any special characters. You can also clear numbers and accents, just passin 'true' values by param:

input
  TextHelper::clear($text, $numbers, $accent);

in that case, the $text variable is going to be reformulated without any number, accent, or special character:

input
  TextHelper::clear("Bom dia, você está linda hoje!!1", true, true);

out
  Bom dia voce esta linda hoje

There are some other methods that are self-intuitive, feel free to read the code. :)

Author

• @fwrw